diskutiert kritisch, inwiefern die "Region" im Rahmen der Innovationspolitik eine geeignete Handlungsebene darstellt und zeigt … the presence of innovative firms. Therefore it is hardly surprising that fostering innovation activities has become one of … the main topics on the political agenda. In most cases innovation policy is, implicitly or explicitly, associated with …

diskutiert kritisch, inwiefern die "Region" im Rahmen der Innovationspolitik eine geeignete Handlungsebene darstellt und zeigt … the presence of innovative firms. Therefore it is hardly surprising that fostering innovation activities has become one of … the main topics on the political agenda. In most cases innovation policy is, implicitly or explicitly, associated with …

Cluster policy is recognized as one of the pivotal elements of state-of-art innovation policy. State support for … innovation policy drafting and implementation. Cluster development stimulates trust building and enhances knowledge spillovers … among different organizations in the region. Finally the cluster approach makes innovation policy more systemic by …

Education and Research. The InnoRegio program has been a new tool of innovation policy with the aim to improve innovativeness in … East Germany on the basis of prosperous regional networks. Besides the direct support of networks and innovation activities … development of networks or cluster was successful, this paper focuses on the investigation of regional economic development. Using …